“Shit!” I cursed under my breath. I shouldn’t have lingered longer than ten minutes in that river.

“Go send a mind-link to your father and sister. They probably heard you’re captured now considering it’s already sundown,” Mara said to me.

“They will not answer,” I sucked a sharp breath between my teeth. “They never answer.”

“You haven’t even yet tried. Perhaps they will this time.” I groaned but Mara was right. There’s no harm in trying.

“Fine,” I stomped my foot.

I looked up at the little cut in the wall opposite me. The light from the sun has now turned orange hues into the shades of twilight. Minutes from...